Goldie Taylor lectures Nicholas Kristof for suggesting protesters focus less on Michael Brown

As Twitchy reported earlier, an internecine Twitter feud broke out between New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and New York Times editorial writer Brent Staples after Kristof suggested the #BlackLivesMatter movement might have been better served by focusing on Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old shot and killed by police in Cleveland, rather than Michael Brown.

Staples responded that it wouldn’t have mattered, because a “healthy majority” of whites support the actions of police in cases where blacks are killed.

Kristof did his best to clarify, but Twitter wasn’t having it.

@jeff_deeney Michael Brown case is more ambiguous and uncertain; Tamir Rice case more clearcut and likely to persuade people of a problem.

— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) January 23, 2015

@NickKristof are you "uncertain" about whether or not Michael Brown should have been killed?

— Julia Carrie Wong (@juliacarriew) January 23, 2015

@deray @NickKristof one can do two things at the same time, esp when there are many many people involved

— Panthro 5000 (@Panthro5000) January 23, 2015

@Panthro5000 @deray Yes, absolutely. But Brown received more attention than Rice, and I'm suggesting it should have been the other way

— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) January 23, 2015

https://twitter.com/tanehisicoates/status/558766900377694209

@tanehisicoates Yes, indeed. Still worth pushing back and putting most compelling faces on problems.

— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) January 23, 2015

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.@NickKristof @tanehisicoates #TamirRice is not a "compelling face" for a PR problem. He is a murdered boy. Stop disregarding his humanity.

— Shelly (@ShellySometimes) January 23, 2015

https://twitter.com/tanehisicoates/status/558772638391083008

The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates wasn’t the only one to weigh in on Kristof’s initial tweet.

https://twitter.com/rgay/status/558770049092419584

@rgay @NickKristof If activists had not sustained their protests in Ferguson, we would never have even heard of Tamir Rice.

— Katherine Karlin (@katherinekarlin) January 23, 2015

I look up from my work and my entire timeline is patiently explaining to a rich New York Times columnist why he's wrong, again.

— Sarah Jaffe (@sarahljaffe) January 23, 2015

Nick Kristof has never devoted a whole column to either Mike Brown or Tamir Rice.

Just saying.

— Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) January 24, 2015

https://twitter.com/JlnFrancisco/status/558791249185214465

@NickKristof <<< someone using their #whiteprivilege to tell POC how to protest. @instapundit @Panthro5000 @deray

— Howard Roark (@shortwave8669) January 24, 2015

Goldie Taylor also joined in the Kristof pile-on.

https://twitter.com/goldietaylor/status/558825571853955072

https://twitter.com/goldietaylor/status/558825832882262016

https://twitter.com/goldietaylor/status/558826119688765440

https://twitter.com/goldietaylor/status/558826696963391488

https://twitter.com/goldietaylor/status/558827714287652864

https://twitter.com/goldietaylor/status/558828296503173120

https://twitter.com/goldietaylor/status/558829080791887873

https://twitter.com/goldietaylor/status/558830426496569345

All of this gives Kristof a great idea for a column.

We subsidize private jets, big banks, hedge fund managers. So why not kids? My column http://t.co/mDZO4w9el0 pic.twitter.com/Nx7gmhI6co

— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) January 22, 2015